World-class oboist Natalie Twigg is delighted to offer her Sanctuary of Sound Oboe Improvisations at St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church. This is a free event, accepting donations. Quieten your mind and listen to Natalie as she wanders the candlelit space and plays from her heart. Thursday, June 267 p.m to 8 p.m.
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Friday, May 16, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., weather permitting An impromptu picnic and prayer gathering at SHSP. The Labyrinth will be illuminated for those feeling led to meditation and prayer. If you enjoy prayer using an art form, feel free to bring any medium or instrument you enjoy. Everyone is welcome! Just show up
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Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion – Sunday, April 13 10:00 a.m. in-person and streamed Bulletin for Palm Sunday View the live stream here The hinge between Lent (learning to live as one of Jesus’ disciples) and Holy Week (remembering Jesus’ last days and death). Recounting Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem with a palm
Modeled on the Danish concept of hygge — companionable coziness — Commons is a time for community members (affiliated with the church or not) to gather, prepare a meal together, spend time together while it cooks, and then eat it together! Well-behaved dogs are welcome. This will happen almost every Monday through the end of
Palm Sunday: The Sunday of the Passion – Sunday, March 24 10:00 a.m. in-person and streamed Bulletin for Palm Sunday View the live stream here The hinge between Lent (learning to live as one of Jesus’ disciples) and Holy Week (remembering Jesus’ last days and death). Recounting Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem with a palm
Matthew’s quotation is intended to remind his readers that the preaching ministry begun by Jesus in Galilee in fulfillment of Scripture would eventually issue in the mission to the Gentiles. That’s us. Epiphany season, extension with Magi knowing good news of the same God, us sharing that good news, Jesus’ direction in great commission.
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The next part is uncomfortable but following Jesus leads to one place – the cross – so some discomfort along the way is part of the bargain.
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The sermon for Sunday, January 8, 2023 was preached by the Most Rev. Melissa Skelton. Archbishop Skelton is the bishop provisional of the Diocese of Olympia. She is the retired Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon and Bishop of New Westminster. The sermon for Baptism of the Lord was preached from the following manuscript as
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Jesus being named on the eighth day and following the rituals of his people is a solidification of what we proclaim at Christmas: God became flesh and lived among us. God came to live among us to save us from ourselves and the mistakes and sins we commit things done and left undone every day of every week of every year. Recording Jesus’ circumcision is recording how truly human Jesus was as he continued to be fully God so that as Paul says we might receive adoption as children. Because we are children of God we have become heirs of God’s salvation.
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The Rev. Joseph Peters-Mathews is the vicar of St. Hilda St. Patrick. The sermon for December 25, 2022 was preached as a response to the texts appointed for a Third Service of Christmas. As is his custom, on Christmas Day, Fr. Joseph read the Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom, originally found from the Antiochian
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